I think for any society to develop and become a civilized society, they need an independent judiciary. — Nawaz Sharif Copy Share Image
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!” — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
“A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the… — Sidney Hatch Copy Share Image
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe… — Herb Cohen Copy Share Image
At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a… — Michelle Cooper Copy Share Image
“She wouldn’t open her heart to me, because she’d know someone else would read the letter and learn her secrets. And I… — Lena Manta Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Men are biological. Women are biological. We pretend our minds are in control, but that’s a very tenuous control at best, and… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“The oft-observed relationship between stress, impaired immunity and illness has given rise to the concept of “diseases of adaptation,” a phrase of… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Mr Judge, Jury & Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. — Mike Schmidt Copy Share Image
“In civilized society, we humans are responsible for nurturing and sustaining the force of inter-relational harmony in our lives.” — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that… — H.D.F. Kitto Copy Share Image
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
